Andy Warhol USA, 1928-1987
Ladies and Gentlemen II.136 (Wilhelmina Ross), 1975
colour screenprint on Arches paper
hand-signed and numbered on the back
hand-signed and numbered on the back
110.7 x 73.3 cm
Edition of 125
Copyright The Artist
From the portfolio of ten screenprints. To create the Ladies and Gentlemen series, Warhol took over 500 Polaroid photographs of 14 different Black and Latin American drag queens and trans...
From the portfolio of ten screenprints. To create the Ladies and Gentlemen series, Warhol took over 500 Polaroid photographs of 14 different Black and Latin American drag queens and trans women recruited by his friends, many were from the Gilded Grape, a bar on Manhattan’s 8th Avenue. The names of 13 of the 14 models were discovered by the Warhol Foundation in 2014: Alphanso Panell, Broadway, Easha McCleary, Helen/Harry Morales, Iris, Ivette, Kim, Lurdes, Marsha P. Johnson, Michele Long, Monique, Vicki Peters and Wilhelmina Ross.